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...didn't know about him. "Fire engines were horse-drawn then," he wrote about his early years, "and the sight of them made me decide I wanted to be a fireman." I also didn't know how, on a Saturday night in Tampico, Ill., a 9-year-old Dutch Reagan, along with a friend, found a shotgun belonging to the boy's father and blew a hole in the family's ceiling. We pore over our parents' childhoods when we are past our own and have grown old enough to be curious...
...Dutch M.E.P. ELLY VAN GORSEL, on the debate prior to the European Parliament's decision to limit software patent legislation similar to that...
...learned their métier at cafés around town and impressed their elders with their shrewdness and industry. Among the impressed was Michel Vidalenc, whose employer, Groupe Bertrand, is one of a few family firms that dominates beverage distribution in France. (Bertrand is now a subsidiary of Dutch brewer Heineken.) These brasseurs - many of whom just happen to come from the Auvergne - serve as informal bankers to the café trade. They sniff out Auvergnats most likely to keep their beer flowing freely and advance them cash to buy a place of their own. "Interest" comes...
...they play," says McEachern. "You see a representative number of hands, exciting hands, to be TV friendly." In between the action, there are refreshingly cheese-free player profiles introducing the likes of Annie Duke, the top poker-playing woman, who came in 10th in 2000 while eight months' pregnant; Dutch Boyd, a math genius who went to college at age 12; and Chris (Jesus) Ferguson, a graduate student at UCLA who can slice a banana with a thrown playing card from 50 ft. away...
These are the kind of numbers that get Turck Paquelier's juices flowing. "I am only interested in big things. Not small things. Not niche brands," she says. Which is strange, because it was Turck Paquelier's decision to sign up the small Dutch fashion house of Viktor & Rolf. "They want to be famous," she insists. Certainly a fragrance backed by L'Oreal will help in that regard. But what's in it for L'Oreal? Turck Paquelier and Owen-Jones hope that the Dutch duo will attract inventive managers and researchers to the company. They also want the designers...